The Malbone Street Wreck

by Brian J. Cudahy

Book Overview

On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush section of Brooklyn with hundreds of homeward-bound commuters aboard. As the train rumbled down a shor hill between Prospect Park and Ebbets Field in the very heart of Brooklyn, the unthinkable happened: the motorman lost control and the train left the tracks as it curved into a tunnel at the foot of the hill. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823219321
• ISBN13: 9780823219322
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"